individualize
verb (used with object)
to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
individualise
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a variation of
individualize.
Example Sentences
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"Smart meters have a tendency to individualise the problem, make owners feel that rising energy bills are to be dealt with by each household alone, and that adds to anxiety," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023
Mr Spagnola believes the customising consumer falls into one of three categories: The "younger crowd", who has purchased a used car or truck and wants to individualise it.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2011
There will always be someone who will touch up and paint and stick windows on to and generally adorn and individualise such houses, which are, of course, the stabler the heavier the wood used.
From Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The whole economy of the establishment is to make you as much at home as possible; to individualise you, as far as it can be done, in every department of personal comfort.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
A third trait, which helps not only to characterise but to individualise him, is his subordination not only of his own existence, but of life in general, to his conception of art.
From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert
